Chantal in Fairyland has had an amazing opening at the German box office. Based on the hugely popular Fack Ju Göhte comedies, this Constantin Film title recorded the highest number of admissions ever on an Easter holiday launch day for a local movie as well as the best year-opening day for any film and is set up for a strong first session.
Thursday brought in 160K admissions ($1.73M) and secured a 43% share of the market. The result is 40% bigger than Barbie’s opening day. Including Wednesday previews, Chantal has taken $2.8M through Thursday. With yesterday’s previews in Austria, the running cume from both markets is $3.12M.
Written and directed by Bora Dağtekin of the Göhte movies fame, Chantal in Fairyland revolves around one of two former main female characters from the franchise who now is an eternal influencer without followers. A time travel story that messes around with movie princess tropes, it sees Chantal (Jella Haase) and her best friend Zeynep (Gizem Emre) transported to a fairytale world via an antique magic mirror they think is a social media gimmick but which does thrill Chantal who sees it as content generating opportunity.
But this isn’t just any fairy tale. As she looks for her way back home, Chantal realizes that things are not what they seem to know about dragons, fairies or other characters from stories of Brothers Grimm in encounter with Princess Amalia (Maria Ehrich), who doesn’t dream about being married; sensitive Prince Bosco (Max von der Groeben), suffering from identity problems; Aladin (Mido Kotaini), who has never heard of flying carpet; witch (Nora Tschirner), being anything but cliché.
Promised as funny and touching adventure giving fairy tales world new contemporary twist, the film definitely aims to prove that you don’t need a prince for happy ending.
Playing on 800 screens in German-speaking markets this weekend, the movie has clear demo runway and no other new titles against it this weekend (Godzilla X Kong goes to Germany on April 5).
The Fack Ju Göhte films, released in 2013, 2015 and 2017, took more than $225M across Europe. Returning cast members from those films include Haase, Emre and von der Groeben.
Chantal in Fairyland is produced by Lena Schoemann with Oliver Berben and Martin Moszkowicz executive producing.
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